Ryzen 3000 Series Boost Frequency Fix Incoming!

We posted just a couple of days ago regarding der8auer's Ryzen 3000 Series Boosting Survey and how the overall boosting of the Ryzen 3000 Series was coming up just shy of the advertised numbers. While Ryzen 3000 Series has brought a serious uplift in real performance over its predecessor it has been plagued by a bit of bad optics over the limited number of chips hitting their rated boost clocks and even falling a bit short of AMD's own reviewers guide targeted numbers. Either way, I'm very happy to see that AMD has made a public statement in regards to their boosting algorithm for their 3rd Gen Ryzen 3000 Series processors.

As they put in the statement below they are currently preparing a new BIOS update for their board partners that will address the boosting of their Ryzen 3000 Series processors as they have identified an issue in their firmware. They will be providing an update on September 10th to the community in regard to the availability of the BIOS. This BIOS will likely not be available to consumers and end-users at that time as the motherboard vendors will have to prepare their specific board BIOS from there. Hopefully, this fix rolls out to all boards that support 3rd Gen Ryzen 3000 Series processors and isn't limited to newer X570 boards and that the people who picked up these CPUs in the past and future can now see those advertised boost clocks become a reality.

The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is a 12 core and 24 thread part featuring the 7nm Zen 2 core architecture. The chip features a base clock of 3.8 GHz and a boost clock of 4.6 GHz. There’s 70 MB of L3 cache, 40 PCIe Gen 4 lanes (CPU + PCH) and a TDP of 105W (derived from the base frequency). The CPU is going to hit retail for $499 US. In terms of pricing, the chip is positioned against the Intel Core i9-9900K and offers more cores, threads, cache, PCIe lanes and support for next-gen I/O such as PCIe Gen 4.0.

The AMD Ryzen 7 3800X is an 8 core and 16 thread part featuring the 7nm Zen 2 core architecture. The chip features a base clock of 3.9 GHz and a boost clock of 4.5 GHz. There’s 36 MB of L3 cache, 40 PCIe Gen 4 lanes (CPU + PCH) and a TDP of 105W (derived from the base frequency). The CPU is going to hit retail for $399 US. In terms of pricing, the chip is positioned against the Intel Core i7-9700K and offers more cores, threads, cache, PCIe lanes and support for next-gen I/O such as PCIe Gen 4.0.

Ryzen 7 3700X 8 Core / 16 Thread CPU For $329 US

The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is also an 8 core and 16 thread part which features the 7nm Zen 2 core architecture. The chip features a base clock of 3.6 GHz and a boost clock of 4.4 GHz. There’s 36 MB of L3 cache, 40 PCIe Gen 4 lanes (CPU + PCH) and a TDP of 65W (derived from the base frequency). The CPU is going to hit retail for $329 US. In terms of pricing, the chip is better positioned against the Core i7-9700K than the Ryzen 7 3800X because it's not only more efficient in terms of TDP but also has a lower price point.

Ryzen 5 3600X 6 Core / 12 Thread CPU For $249 US

The AMD Ryzen 5 3600X is a 6 core and 12 thread part featuring the 7nm Zen 2 core architecture. The chip features a base clock of 3.8 GHz and a boost clock of 4.4 GHz. There’s 35 MB of L3 cache, 40 PCIe Gen 4 lanes (CPU + PCH) and a TDP of 95 W (derived from the base frequency). The CPU is going to hit retail for $249 US. In terms of pricing, the chip is positioned against the Intel Core i5-9600K and offers more cores, threads, cache, PCIe lanes and support for next-gen I/O such as PCIe Gen 4.0.

Ryzen 5 3600 6 Core / 12 Thread CPU For $199 US

The AMD Ryzen 5 3600X is an entry-level 6 core and 12 thread part featuring the 7nm Zen 2 core architecture. The chip features a base clock of 3.6 GHz and a boost clock of 4.2 GHz. There’s 35 MB of L3 cache, 40 PCIe Gen 4 lanes (CPU + PCH) and a TDP of 65 W (derived from the base frequency). The CPU is going to hit retail for $199 US. Based on the pricing, the Ryzen 5 3600 is going to be an extremely popular 6 core chip for gamers who are planning to build budget gaming PCs with a focus on price/performance.

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